The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1887-02-03
Gov. BARRETrs pLATroRM.


The following are substantially the
adopted By q Mass meet
ing OF farmers of the 42d Legislative
district and also by the Grant County
Farmers alliance at delegate Con-
vention:
The tax laws should be revised. We ARD In
favor OF the Iowa system which permits tho
payment of taxes in 8. mi-annuai Install
ments., The penalties for nonpayment of
axes ought not to be more than one per
,ent. per mouth before or after sale The
lime Tor redeeming property sold at tax sales
ought to be extended to a longer time than
.wo years. A tax receipt Should be PRIMA
FAcrE evidence that the tax has been paid
We demand tnat corporate property bear
It's equal share of the public burdens. It
ought to be taxed as other prop .rty is taxed
and pay Its just proportion OF state County,
town and school district taxes.
We are satisfied with the grain law as IL
stands. We protest against licensing, bond.
Ing or any regulation what ever of the coun.
try elevators. Let there be ne limit either
10 the number or capacity; let everybody
buy. sell, sh: p or deal In wheat as they do in
other articles of trade; let the communic,.
be unobstructed; state weighing and state In
spection at thai point with free access to 1t
will remedy all local evils. The right to ship
from SIDE tracks must not be restricted; this
Is the key to the whole situation; deny this
and bond or license country elevators and the
centrOl ofthe mark ct falls into the hands of a
professional and skilled band of wheat buy.
ers and market manipuiators who by the aid
of railway managers can a one time food the
markets by rushing the wheat stream for.
ward, or at another time by hslding IL back
Is ,en the flow Of wheat and publish to the
world that wheat receipts are falling OFT
The wheat ticket or the wheat receipt is moi
the wheat; and the proposition to bond or Il
cense country warehouse and elevators
making the wheat ticxet good in every mar
ket of the state, Ia ''delusion and a snare >,
II the identical wheat IL to be retained i'm
store where originally dep,,s tied the local eIe
vators would soon be full nd there would be
no room to receive more. Ir the wheat ia Ia
be- shipped 70 other markets and sold or
ground into Hour, then the receiver of the
ticket is paying storage when there is no
wheat In store. and the man to whom no ia
paying storage is not Gully recei wing pay for a
service which he does not render but he also
has the use OF the ticket holders monev
There was never devised In cur opinion a
more Ingenious scheme than this for trans.
ferring one mans money into anhther's pock
ct. Sucn scheme ought not to have the
sanction of law. - ",
FEES for loading wheat through country
elevators ought not to exceed three fourtbs
ola cent per bu -hel and for cleaning Aid
loading wheat one anu quart r cents per
bushel. .-.. -..' III
We believe that the present railroad law "a
In the main g.'od iawif f,i hfuIly enforced
The law should prohibit pooling We r.lter.
ate the statement made In our declaration OF
rights Ito pool Is to plumber and divide. -
The law shoul Id provide such penalties as will
efectualIy suppress it.
We nave law against discrimination
There Is reason to believe that IL is being daily
violated. We ask an Investigation into this
greatest of all the evils of the railway system
Let us know whether 1t Is the law itself thai
Is NJ fault or Its administration. If the law
Is defective let 1t be so an ended as to make
discrimination in favor OF either person OF
place as dangerous crime as counterteiting
1.-THE law has not BEN faithfully admins
tered let us know that also. If those whose
duty 1t Is to protect the people have been toe
weak to combat the power which dares te
defy the law-let them stand aside. Ifin this
contest with an arrogant and despotic power
the1 have deliberately chosen the side agains,
the people let as know that too
We denounce In the strongest terms the
granting Of free passes Let all pay eauaIly
for The use OF these tracks-except pnL q
paupers.
We are willing to pay reasonable rate fol
carrying our products to market aud upon
merchandise and other freIgLts brought e.
our door-but we will pay no more. What
ever mere than reasonable rate IN extorted
from us we submit to for the time being a,
the defenseless individual submits TO q des
potic power which he Is helpless TO resist.
We demand or the law making power tina,
legislation be had which shall max g the traf
nc between the timber and prairie section,
oftne slate free zand unrestricted by tb,
shortest railway line or lines and at tn,
smallest cost possible consistent with iustic,
TO the corporation.
We demand the law making power of tn.
state that the railway tracks be opened 10,
direct and unobs,rucied traffic between ever,
par" or Minnesota and Duluth and that such
railway regulations be prescribed as will er
init the shipper TO reach that port at reason
able rates.
Whereas all freight rates to interior point,
in the state west of st. Paul and Minneapoli,
a re much higher than the rates east of tbos,
CT ties often amounting to two I'VE and ever
ten times the rate where com petition exists
therefore
Be IL Resolved. That we denounce the pres
ent railway Rates on the roads west OF St
Paul, Minneapolis and Duluth as unrea son.
able, oppressive and exiortionate.
We demand of the legislation enactment
Of a law prescribing the following rsies fol
transportation OF wheat In car load lots ts
any point In the state; for the first I6S mile.
not more than A cents per bushel, for all dis.
tances over l65 mi es and less than 800 mile,
from Al to II cents according to distances
for ali distances over 800 and less than 4Ot
miles from n to 81 cents per bushel accord.
Ing to distance, for all distances over 40t
miles rates based on the foregoing. The sh 10
per 10 have the right TO choose the route owe,
which the shipment shall be made; and
where that route requires the use of tn.
tracks of mare than one railway compan,
ing from the car In when the shipment wa,
first made at a cost not to exceed one dolla,
for each tr insfer.
We are confident that with the foregoing
propositions Incorporated into efficient law
new life would be injected into the agricultu
raj interests ofthe state, every legitimate in
dustry would be favorably affected, and the
corporations themselves In the end benefited
Not only would freights rates be greatly
cheape ed but what is OF far more conse
quence the markets would be released from
the grip OF 81 gantic combination of confed-
eratdd monopoli.s which under the present
system dicta. prices, plumber the people and
divide the spoils
CONGRESS.
WEDNESDAY.
SENATE-The bill to establish experimental
stations in connection with agricultural
colleges was debated
HoUsE-The river and hsrbor bill was
considered. A substitute for the whole meas.
ure by Mr.. Nelson. appropriating $500. OU0 to
la t.